Wednesday, April 6, 2016

Panoply - a space devoted to helping you enjoy, teach, and research the ancient world

Welcome to Panoply, a space devoted to helping you enjoy, teach, and research the ancient world. See Steve Simons’ amazing animations bring ancient Greek vase scenes to life; discover new ways to use animation; find out about Sonya Nevin’s research; and follow our blog for up-to-date news on events, progress, and interviews.

Steve has been making vase animations since 2007. With
a history in software engineering, Steve studied multimedia design
before becoming a freelance animator.

Sonya did her doctorate on ancient Greek warfare
at University College Dublin. She is now a research fellow and visiting
lecturer at the University of Roehampton in London. She has worked and
volunteered in the Ure Museum, the UCD Classical Museum, and the Royal
Museums Greenwich. Sonya’s research and teaching interests include
religion, warfare, and historiography.

The primary focus of the project is notice and comment on open access material relating to the ancient world, but I will also include other kinds of networked information as it comes available.

The ancient world is conceived here as it is at the Institute for the Study of the Ancient World at New York University, my academic home at the time AWOL was launched. That is, from the Pillars of Hercules to the Pacific, from the beginnings of human habitation to the late antique / early Islamic period.

AWOL is the successor to Abzu, a guide to networked open access data relevant to the study and public presentation of the Ancient Near East and the Ancient Mediterranean world, founded at the Oriental Institute, University of Chicago in 1994. Together they represent the longest sustained effort to map the development of open digital scholarship in any discipline.